Originally posted by griphon2
The tedium is explaining German, French, and Italian Augmented 6 chords. PRAGMATICALLY, most of my ilk call them dominant or V7 chords. It's just easier.

I forgot to meantion this. An augmented 6 chord is NOT the same as a dominant 7 chord. There is a difference, I'll explain. Anytime you see augmented. This is telling you the triad structure of the chord. Whether it's major, minor, diminished, or augmented. Everything else is an extension of that triad, even 7th's. So when you say E augmented 6, what your saying is your playing an E augmented triad with a 6 added to it. So an E augmented 6 chord would be E, G#, B#, C#. The E dominant 7 chord which has a major triad structure would be E, G#, B, D. See what I mean, "augmented" is not a substitute for saying "sharp that note". I may be wrong if the germans, french, and italians have a different chordal system. That I am unaware of since everything we know as chordal structure came from germany and/or italy. Yeah contemporary is more american but this is not that issue. Either way if your books or teacher said this is so, they're wrong. Alot of misguided information out there.